Monday, February 18, 2013

Why The Banking Elite Want Riots in America


Why The Banking Elite Want Riots in America
Posted By: RumorMail [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 17-Feb-2013 22:18:26
Civil War 2: The economic imperative for mass social unrest
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
February 11, 2013

Every indication clearly suggests that authorities in the United States are preparing for widespread civil unrest. This trend has not emerged by accident – it is part of a tried and tested method used by the banking elite to seize control of nations, strip them of their assets, and absorb them into the new world order.
There is a crucial economic imperative as to why the elite is seeking to engineer and exploit social unrest.
As respected investigative reporter Greg Palast exposed in 2001, the global banking elite, namely the World Bank and the IMF, have honed a technique that has allowed them to asset-strip numerous other countries in the past – that technique has come to be known at the “IMF riot.”
In April 2001, Palast obtained leaked World Bank documents that outlined a four step process on how to loot nations of their wealth and infrastructure, placing control of resources into the hands of the banking elite.
One of the final steps of the process, the “IMF riot,” detailed how the elite would plan for mass civil unrest ahead of time that would have the effect of scaring off investors and causing government bankruptcies.
“This economic arson has its bright side – for foreigners, who can then pick off remaining assets at fire sale prices,” writes Palast, adding, “A pattern emerges. There are lots of losers but the clear winners seem to be the western banks and US Treasury.”
In other words, the banking elite creates the very economic environment – soaring interest rates, spiraling food prices, poverty, lower standards of living – that precipitates civil unrest – and then like a vulture swoops down to devour what remains of the country’s assets on the cheap.
We have already seen this process unfold in places like Bolivia, Ecuador, Indonesia, Greece and Argentina. Next on the chopping block are Spain, Italy, Britain and France – all of which have seen widespread riots over the last two years.
As Ha-Joon Chang explains in the Guardian, the roots of Europe’s riots were sparked by “governments inflicting an old-IMF-style programme on their own populations,” namely the same programs of “austerity, privatisation and deregulation,” that caused the riots of the 80′s and 90′s in poorer countries.
Although the likes of the IMF and the World Bank have pillaged half of the globe with their economic terrorism, America remains the ultimate prize. The first step of the four step process for bankster seizure of a country – privatization of state-owned assets – is already well under way in America, with infrastructure being sold off to foreign corporations, with the aid of Goldman Sachs, at a frightening pace.
A key component of the banking elite’s insidious agenda to bring about an economic collapse in America by design also centers around the process of de-industrializing the country, eviscerating the nation’s platform for self-sufficiency and replacing it with dependence on banker bailouts. This has already been largely achieved in Europe – with just about every major economy on the continent run by Goldman Sachs-affiliated technocrats.
In the United States, 32 per cent of manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2000, while 56,000 manufacturing facilities have been mothballed since 2001. The Obama administration has also declared war on the coal industry, with Obama himself promising to “bankrupt” anyone who tries to build a new coal plant. Meanwhile, China builds a new coal plant every two weeks.
Given the clear economic motive for stirring unrest in the United States, we’d expect to see preparations for domestic disorder in numerous different guises – and indeed the signs are everywhere.
National Defense Authorization Act
The Obama administration’s passage of NDAA legislation that authorizes kidnapping and indefinite detention without trial of American citizens on U.S. soil serves to create the framework for mass arrests of protesters and journalists in a time of declared national emergency.
Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
The Obama administration’s brazen and aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers for divulging government corruption in the public interest is clearly a device designed to intimidate whistleblowers from speaking out when the proverbial hits the fan.
Spying on Social Media for Signs of Unrest
The Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies are actively engaged in spying on social media as well as news websites to look for reports or comments that “reflect adversely on the U.S. government and the DHS.” The government is on the lookout for the ‘tipping point’ when heated online rhetoric spills onto the streets in the form of unrest.
Building Huge Spy Centers to Track Unrest
The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy center in the middle of the Utah desert. The purpose of the data facility is to intercept, “all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.”
By creating a gigantic database of every communication imaginable, the NSA hopes to monitor and pre-empt the spread of mass civil unrest in America.
Preparing Drones for Domestic Oppression
Last week, the Justice Department re-affirmed its position that the Obama administration can use armed drones to assassinate Americans. Under the NDAA, the whole of the United States has been declared a “battlefield,” meaning that drones may soon be used to execute American citizens on U.S. soil.
A government that resorts to killing its own citizens without any legal process whatsoever is clearly a dictatorship engaged in domestic oppression. The only imaginable scenario under which this program would be justifiable was if the U.S. was under a state of martial law and the government was on the verge of collapse.
Preparing for Martial Law
The Department of Homeland Security has purchased over 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the last 10 months alone. At the height of combat operations in Iraq, the U.S. Army only used 5.5 million bullets a month. Why has the DHS stockpiled enough bullets for a 30 year war if it is not preparing for some form of domestic disorder?
Preparation for martial law can be seen in numerous different guises, but perhaps the most chilling is a nationwide FEMA program which is training pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to “obey the government” in preparation for the implementation of martial law, property and firearm seizures, mass vaccination programs and forced relocation.
Characterizing the American People as the New Target of the War on Terror
The U.S. Army’s Operating Concept 2016-2028 dictates that the military’s “full spectrum operations” will include “operations within American borders.” Scenarios where Americans form into militia groups and become “insurrectionists” as a result of an economic collapse and have to be eliminated by the U.S. Army have already been mapped out by military planners.
A leaked U.S. Army manual also reveals plans for the military to carry out “Civil Disturbance Operations” during which troops will be used domestically to quell riots, confiscate firearms and even kill Americans on U.S. soil during mass civil unrest.
The Department of Homeland Security’s ‘See Something, Say Something’ program habitually portrays middle class Americans as terrorists. In addition, numerous DHS-funded reports have characterized “liberty lovers” and other constitutionalists as domestic terrorists.
Every indication presents us with the inescapable reality that the US government is preparing for mass civil unrest at some point over the next five to ten years. When we look at the recent history of nations that have suffered financial collapse, domestic disorder is clearly a key component of a deliberate agenda on behalf of the banking elite to undermine and loot economies – confiscating national sovereignty in the process.
In Part 2, we’ll explore why the elite, although keen on provoking mass social unrest and even civil war, are destined to lose the battle.
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http://www.infowars.com/why-the-banking-elite-wants-riots-in-america/

Jon Rappoport: "Facebook blocks Jon Rappoport's articles"


Jon Rappoport: "Facebook blocks Jon Rappoport's articles"
Posted By: hobie [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 18-Feb-2013 00:21:23
Hi, Folks -
Thanks to Reader B. for forwarding this to us:
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Facebook blocks Jon Rappoport's articles
by Jon Rappoport
February 17, 2013
www.nomorefakenews.com

I became aware of the block and censorship a few days ago, soon after I wrote and published the article: "Ruthless State of the Union: current crime boss speaks."
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/the-ruthless-state-of-the-union-the-current-crime-boss-speaks/
That article was about Obama, and it was also about every president as far back as Nixon. It mainly described the absurdities implied by Obama's vague notion that "we all have to work together."
Readers began letting me know they couldn't Facebook-share my articles. This became: no one could share any article that included: "jonrappoport.wordpress.com."
As a reporter for 30 years, I know a little about the 1st Amendment. Criticizing the president, or the medical cartel, or any number of other institutions I've taken on is par for the course. If some Facebook readers are marking these articles spam or abusive, they should think again.
Lots of people these days believe it's part of the game to try to censor their perceived opponents. "Why debate or even allow a different voice? Let's just block it out."
Blocking the FB posting of my article links could also be part of the Facebook management purge of political activists, particularly those who defend the 2nd Amendment and private gun ownership. This happened to a number of people at infowars.com last December, and it also happened at Natural News.
At the moment, I have a workaround in place, and my site and blog are working just fine, but the basic wider issue of blocking dissident opinion isn't going away.
Some people have pointed out that Facebook is a private company, and therefore it has the right to define acceptable speech any way it wants to. This may be true, but blocking and censoring political viewpoints is a very bad policy. Claiming, for example, that Facebook is only for making and communicating with friends is a cop-out. If friends can't share information about political realities, it's a hollow situation.
Many reporters, including myself, came to the Internet because we were sick and tired of trying to convince editors at newspapers and magazines that our work should see the light of day. Editors routinely shot down (and still do) article ideas that wandered too far off the mainstream reservation.
That was the censorship we were leaving in the dust. Now, here it is again.
Every day, I read articles I don't like. The idea of somehow censoring them would be absurd.
In this country (and other countries), we have people who believe in and support free speech. Then we have True Believers, whose cause in their minds outdistances any considerations about liberty. They would trample liberty at the drop of a hat to make the world over in their image. Finally, we have organizations who enter into covert political alliances to advance their own interests. These organizations also care nothing about the 1st Amendment.
Where is Facebook in all of this? Are they just a front for gathering personal information on a billion people? Are they just another wing of the vast surveillance apparatus that is operating from a playbook that wants androids instead of thinking citizens?
It's time for the bosses at Facebook to step out into the light and explain, in detail, exactly how they block information and on what grounds. How are reports of spam and "abusive content" processed by their algorithms? What is their position on the 1st Amendment?
Failure to make this clear is evidence of purposeful concealment.
Perhaps an article I wrote and published last August, "Facebook, the CIA, DARPA, and the tanking IPO," will help put this situation into perspective:
The big infusion of cash that sent Mark Zuckerberg and his fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel Partners, in 2004.
Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook, and nothing has ever been the same.
Earlier that same year, a man named Gilman Louie joined the board of the National Venture Capital Association of America (NVCA). The chairman of NVCA? Jim Breyer. Gilman Louie happened to be the first CEO of the important CIA start-up, In-Q-Tel.
In-Q-Tel was founded in 1999, with the express purpose of funding companies that could develop technology the CIA would use to "gather data."
That's not the only connection between Jim Breyer and the CIA's man, Gilman Louie. In 2004, Louie went to work for BBN Technologies, headed up by Breyer. Dr. Anita Jones also joined BBN at that time. Jones had worked for In-Q-Tel and was an adviser to DARPA, the Pentagon's technology department that helped develop the Internet.
With these CIA/Darpa connections, it's no surprise that Jim Breyer's jackpot investment in Facebook is not part of the popular mythology of Mark Zuckerberg. Better to omit it. Who could fail to realize that Facebook, with its endless stream of personal data, and its tracking capability, is an ideal CIA asset?
But now the Facebook stock has tanked. On Friday, August 17, it weighed in at half its initial IPO price. For the first time since the IPO, venture-capital backers were legally permitted to sell off their shares, and some did, at a loss.
Articles have begun appearing that question Zuckerberg's ability to manage his company. "Experts" are saying he should import a professional team to run the business side of things and step away.
All this, despite the fact that Facebook's first posted revenue as a public company has exceeded analysts' predictions, according to the LA Times.
This has the earmarks of classic shakeout and squeeze play. It's how heavy hitters gain control of a company. First, they drive down the price of the stock, then they trade it at low levels that discourage and demoralize the public and even semi-insiders. As the stock continues to tank, they quietly buy up as much of it as they can. Finally, when the price hits a designated rock bottom, they shoot it up all the way to new highs and win big.
And they hold enough shares to exert more control over the company itself.
That is how Facebook will survive. Zuckerberg's grip on Facebook will loosen.
The company is too important as a data-mining asset of the intelligence community to let it fall into disrepair and chaos. The CIA and its cutouts will save it and gain more power over it. It's what they've wanted all along.
From the time Mark Zuckerberg was a child and attended the summer camp for "exceptional children," CTY (Center for Talented Youth), run by Johns Hopkins University, he, like other CTY students, Sergey Brin (co-founder of Google), and Lady Gaga, have been easy to track.
CTY and similar camps filter applications and pick the best and brightest for their accelerated learning programs. Tracing the later progress of these children in school and life would be a standard operation for agencies like the CIA.
When Zuckerberg founded an interesting little social network at Harvard, and then sought to turn it into a business, the data-mining possibilities were obvious to CIA personnel. Through their cutouts, as described above, they stepped in and lent a helping hand.
Now it's time for Zuckerberg to pass the baton to his handlers, so they can maximize the economics of Facebook and utilize it to spy even more extensively.
The media will play along, pretending the eventual upswing-recovery of Facebook stock happens for fundamental reasons connected to the company's "better level of performance." The media take this approach to every stock and every company, to avoid letting the public know how massive manipulation actually runs these trading markets.
End of the August 2012 article.
People might ask, "Then why, Rappoport, do you use Facebook at all?"
That's a legitimate question. My answer is simple. Since I began working as a reporter in 1982, I've used every possible opportunity and venue to put my information out there.
There's a big difference between that and overtly supporting all those venues.
When I admire a writer, broadcaster, or organization, I say so, and I have. Even then, that doesn't mean I have to agree with everything they say or stand for.
That's a a distinction with a meaning. It's exactly the distinction I'm asking Facebook to clarify: what will they allow, whether they agree with it or not?
Do I expect them to spell it out in sufficient detail? No. But then that means something, too.
None of this will change one iota of what I write or say.
Jon Rappoport
The author of an explosive collection, THE MATRIX REVEALED, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
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Defense Cuts and the Global Empire


Defense Cuts and the Global Empire
Posted By: SARTRE
Date: Monday, 18-Feb-2013 04:53:08
The fundamental distinction between a legitimate national defense and an aggressive global garrison imperium, escapes the political elites. The War Party's entrenched power and control of their egocentric internationalist foreign policy, endangers the country. Military expenditures have increased substantially this century with little regard to The Real Threat to National Security. The "War on Terror" is a tired excuse that keeps precision smart weapon dominance deployed, which shells suspect bombers with impunity. The technologists that develop and refine methods for more efficient killing machinery hardly earn the honor - defenders of the nation.
Read the entire article on the BATR archive page
http://batr.org/gulag/021713.html

Discuss or comment about this essay on the BATR Forum
http://forum.batr.net/showthread.php?tid=2612


 

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"OPPT Lawfully Forecloses Corps, Banks and Govts for Operating Slavery & Private Money Systems"


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Reader, link: "OPPT Lawfully Forecloses Corps, Banks and Govts for Operating Slavery & Private Money Systems"
Posted By: hobie [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 18-Feb-2013 02:15:35

(Thanks, R. :)
Discernment is advised.
Reader R. sends us the link to a longish explanatory article written by Andy Whiteley:
One People’s Public Trust Lawfully Forecloses Corporations, Banks and Governments for Operating Slavery and Private Money Systems
http://wakeup-world.com/2013/02/18/all-corporations-banks-and-governments-lawfully-foreclosed-by-oppt/
...which begins:
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Many of you have heard… many have not. Announced publicly on 25 December 2012, the system of Corporate-Governmental rule has been foreclosed. Legally foreclosed… via one of its own mechanisms. The “Powers That Be” are now the “Powers That Were”. All debt has been erased and corporations – including but not limited to Corporate Governments and Banks – have been foreclosed.

Boyfriend Wilson, another music company owner, suicided. Still don't believe in 'Starwhackers'?


Boyfriend Wilson, another music company owner, suicided. Still don't believe in 'Starwhackers'?
Posted By: Infoeditor [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 18-Feb-2013 01:04:20
Boyfriend Wilson, another music company owner, suicided. Still don't believe in 'Starwhackers'?
Call me the eternal skeptic, but all I can say at this point is there seems to be a lot of stars, entertainment personalities having problems and people around the country turning up dead lately.
It seems improbable that Mindy would have decided to go over to someone's home, go up on the front porch and just shoot herself there. Was she being chased, pursued by armed persons? At this point there may not be enough information to tell what's up with this, but it isn't good to speculate.
What's troubling is how her boyfriend, David Wilson, a songwriter who ran Dave Wilson Productions, was found suicided last month, and now Mindy turns up suicided, also. Two suicides, both companions, within about a month?
Wilson was found shot in a home he shared with Mindy near Greers Ferry Lake in Arkansas.
You may recall Randy Quaid's and his wife's statements about 'Starwhackers' and how they fled to Canada after a lot of what they called stalking, etc.. One of the warrants which had been served on them was reportedly a fraudulent document. Randy said some stars are in danger from those who would steal from them and kill them, etc..
Death in the music business? Again? And again? Death in the entertainment business, again? And again? Looks like there may be more to Randy's 'Starwhackers' claim after all, especially if both of these recent suicides ever receive thorough investigation.
Friends of the late Phillip Marshall and other investigators are now saying that double murder of kids and suicide is also phony. I listed that comment at story here at the forum a few days ago. 'More 'Sanitizing' so Hillary Can Run in 2016'
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=269325

I read recently that Randy had been denied asylum and/or citizenship in Canada, but I don't know what the final word is on it. Maybe someone who's seen that info can put it up. Best wishes to Randy and his wife.
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Also see:

'EXCLUSIVE: Mindy McCready's boyfriend shoots himself dead at Arkansas home he shared with troubled country star'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262438/David-Wilson-dies-Mindy-McCreadys-boyfriend-shoots-dead-Arkansas.html#ixzz2LE6mn4bl
Posted in addition to below article
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: HEBER SPRINGS, Arkansas
: Singer Mindy McCready has been listed dead of a single self
: inflicted gunshot wound, found on the front porch of a
: home.

: She reportedly had trouble over child custody, etc., and
: unfortunately lost one companion who died recently and has
: been hospitalized on alleged suicide attempt, etc., before.
: Very sad news.
: Thanks to Mindy for all her musical contribution. Gone too
: soon.

: It's mindbending how fast someone who's having problems can
: turn up dead. I had just noticed her problems the other day
: and thought to myself this needs to change for her and
: start looking up. Then I just read this.

The Star-Whackers Choose Their Latest Target: Susan Sarandon
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=269675

A Guide to Obama's Sales Pitch for Corporate Profits - or ReBilking America


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A Guide to Obama's Sales Pitch for Corporate Profits - or ReBilking America
Posted By: TheMelinda
Date: Sunday, 17-Feb-2013 20:15:34

by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster

The visual above is the short story. Barack Obama smooching Charles Koch, who with his brother, David, very much wants American taxpayers to pay for the XL Keystone pipeline, which will save them money and the trouble of redesigning their present refineries, deep in the heart of Texas. The Koch refinery is configured to take heavy crude, available only from Venezuela and Canada.
And along with the distasteful issue of going hat in hand to Hugo Chavez, and paying $100 (£64) a barrel, the oil the Kochs need is available far more thriftily from Canada, selling at around $67 (£42) a barrel. Even billionaires take thrift into consideration. Getting Americans, now struggling to feed their families, to pay doubtless stuck them as a much better idea.
You can't say the Brothers Koch are not consistent. I coined the name, 'Greedville,' to ID them and their many co-conspirators. Together, they have been bilking America for years and have now formed a coalition with President Obama to Rebilk America using ideas which first say light of day in the unlikely environs of Libertarianism, for which I must apologize. I tried to stop them, but what do you do with a bunch of wild-eyed Randroids, including the ever avaricious Ed Crane?
Crane, and Cato Institute, eventually saw the full potential of privatization, borrowed from Reason Foundation.
Privatization, the lodestone of the Obama message, should strike horror into the hearts of an American. Privatization has grown our prisons into factories intended only to produce money through incarceration, many of these for crimes which are, arguably, not crimes at all, harming no one. The same “public – private” cooperation, also known as fascism, is steadily encroaching on every part of our lives and, sadly, can be credited directly to a Libertarian.
Dr. Robert Poole, who originated the idea of privatization in his 1975 book, “Cutting Back City Hall,” laid the tracks for the railroading Obama is 'fast-tracking' for the Kochs, who are large donors to Reason Foundation and actually founded Cato Institute. These supposedly Libertarian think-tanks have long since become the means of quieting objections from the 'Right' intelligent enough to understand what was actually going down.
Using the fiction of 'privatization,' actually corporatization, corporations intend to own America's entire infrastructure, mining it, and us with the cost-plus contracts for 'rebilking' which helped make the Kochs billionaires in the first place. I'm sure Bob Poole did well on the deal.
Bob retired to Florida where he spends his time playing with, would you believe, his model trains.

Obama's pitch for corporate welfare can usefully be considered as two parts. The cake, which are the direct largess to be handed out to the Kochtapus and friends, and the frosting of promises, including “quality day-care,” which was to sugar-coat the impending flow of funds to Greedville with promises for programs which, if precedent is to be believed, are in reality intended to put ordinary Americans under tighter control and provide earlier access to children for purposes of ensuring they emerge from 'schooling' properly propagandized.
What any reasonable person would have asked is, “why not policies which return prosperity to Americans so mothers and fathers can raise their own children, instilling their own values?
Since such 'policy reforms,' as changes in student loans actually should address the fraudulent nature of the loans in the first place, why is an investigation into this by the DOJ not included? Answer: These loans resulted in enormous corporate profits.
Every proposal has the same unchanging outcome, increasing corporate profits while making it look like they are doing ordinary Americans a favor.
The gloss of frosting also included the continued demand for gun control, intended to leave Americans unable to defend themselves against this assault of fascism.
In fact, along with Obama's use of 'not for profits,' and a steady roll of propaganda, there was not a leaf left out of the book also used by Karl Rove. Perhaps Karl loaned it to him.
When Obama uses the phrase 'rebuilding America, he actually means rebilking America. The only solution is taking the power back, directly to the people. Get the real thing. Rebuild America, starting in your own local community by returning to our founding principles.
Instead of more bilking start rebuilding America for real.
The Declaration of Independence affirms the rights of all people to life, liberty, and happiness.
The Preamble to the Constitution says, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
One of the first steps to securing the blessings of liberty and ensuring justice hinges on an electoral system which we can trust, the very thing Karl Rove has worked so hard to extinguish, with the help of the people named above, and many, many more like him.
Over the last decade a general agreement on several points has coalesced in the Election Integrity Movement.http://rebuild-america.com/restore-local-power/electoral-integrity/
First, we need to dump the voting machines.
Second, we need to return control of balloting to the most local level, voting on paper ballots, tallying transparently and openly at the precinct and then publishing the results.
To return power to the people we need to move the nexus of control closer to home.
We can also ensure states can bypass Congress by proposing Constitutional Amendments and ratifying among themselves, thus returning power to the states, closer to the people who are the government. The Madison Amendment.http://www.madisonamendment.org/
We need to return representation of the people to the levels mandated by the Constitution, this being no more than 30,000 for a member of the House of Representatives and no more than 1,000 locally. Our present system violates the Constitution.http://rebuild-america.com/restore-local-power/why-local-empowerment/ This must be corrected. Doing so must take place through local organizing, original shoe-leather activism, which brings us together past the divisions politics has imposed.
Local organizing will also allow us to pass ordinances banning the use of drones, along with other essential measures for returning control to the people. Strong communities, concern for those around us, and individual initiative, made America a shining light on the horizon for people around the world once. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. The choice is each of ours make.
At Rebuild America,http://rebuild-america.com/ we supply information, tools, and a meeting point for sharing what works so local action can flower as the people do it themselves.
See you there, and then in your home town.

STAGGERING - SIT DOWN


  ' We the people ' must identify, and reign in the congressional members on the Homeland Security Committee , that is headed by the dual- citizen, zionist, Joseph Leiberman .
  their stance is definitely TREASONOUS , AND WE SHOULD CONSIDER THEM:
SATANIC,MORALLY, INSANE, TO BE AS POLITICAL ANARCHISTS AND DOMESTIC TERRORIST ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , AND THEREPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS !
  They are promoting the New World Order Agenda of the U.N. Small Arms Treaty that is intended to disarm the civilians hrroughout the world , so we can be prodded and abused like cattle.
  FACT:   Within the last 100 years - TWO HUNDRED NINETY TWO MILLION, HUMAN BEINGS, WERE MURDERED SHORTLY AFTER THESE CIVILIANS WERE DISARMED. THOSE ARE ACTUAL FACTS, THAT ARE ON THE RECORDS !  Danger - Will Robinson ! Danger ! OR WE WILL BE ON THE 'Lost Planet' too ! 
  It's ours, and we chose to keep it that way - 'True Blue ' !
FACT: Last year there were only 10,000 gun related deaths in the U.S. with a population of over 300 Million. America, proudly is among the VERY LOWEST MARGINS of  per capita firearms related deaths in the entire known world , including those countries that totally prohibit civilian ownership of firearms.
  This current U.N. promoted Gun Ban agenda is generated by NWO proponents to pave the way for their 'jack-booted'  uber-control and serfdom of the WORLD'S LAST BASTION AND SHINING ENCLAVE OF  REAL  DEMOCRACY ON THIS PLANET EARTH !  
    TELL THEM TO ' GO TO HELL - WHERE THEY TRULY BELONG !




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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Church admits Pope’s Guilt: Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican for legal immunity and “protection”


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Church admits Pope’s Guilt: Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican for legal immunity and “protection”
Posted By: Maryhrt [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 17-Feb-2013 21:45:03

Global Voice Radio http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universalvoice
will have Rev. Kevin Annet and Alfred Webremont on tomorrow night at 9PM EST, I believe. Kevin and Alfred will both be giving all three hours to the crimes of the Pope and the Vatican, supposed to be very inclusive. I am sure if it's that inclusive they will lose blogtalk so make sure you are ready to go to Spreaker as a back up or have the phone numbers ready. It will be that intrusive and they want this kind of information shut down.
http://itccs.org/2013/02/16/roman-church-admits-the-popes-guilt-joseph-ratzinger-to-evade-justice-and-hide-out-in-the-vatican-for-his-own-legal-immunity-and-protection/
Roman Church admits the Pope’s Guilt: Joseph Ratzinger to Evade Justice and Hide out in the Vatican for his own legal immunity and “protection”
Posted on February 16, 2013 by itccs
Exclusive Breaking News: Friday February 15, 2013
12 midnight GMT
An Urgent Update from the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) – Brussels
Rome:
In a statement to Reuters today, Vatican officials announced that Joseph Ratzinger will remain a permanent resident of Vatican City after his resignation. Doing so will offer him legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources said today
"His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless".
This startling admission of guilt by the church is also a direct obstruction of justice, and lends more weight to the charge by the ITCCS and others that the Vatican has arranged with the Italian government to shield Ratzinger from criminal prosecution, in violation of international laws ratified by Italy.
Commentary:
The Vatican decided today to give permanent sanctuary to a proven war criminal by allowing Joseph Ratzinger to obstruct justice and evade prosecution for crimes against humanity. And the government of Italy is colluding in this abrogation of international law.
This decision validates our claims about the criminal conspiracy surrounding Ratzinger and his Vatican co-conspirators. It also makes it clear that the Vatican is a rogue power that is flaunting every law to conceal its own criminality.
In response, the ITCCS calls upon its affiliates and all people of conscience to use our upcoming Easter Reclamation Campaign to converge on Rome and the Vatican to force the extradition of Ratzinger from Vatican City, and place him and his accessories on trial for crimes against humanity.
Commencing Sunday, March 24, 2013, our activists and others will begin an escalating series of Catholic church occupations and seizures of church property to bring about Ratzinger's extradition and reclaim stolen wealth from the criminal corporation known as Vatican Inc. – in the name of the legion of their victims, both living and dead.
.. and from Kevin Annett – The Rat Scurries Back to Vat!
Those whom the gods destroy, they first drive insane. Especially, it seems, in Rome.
Why would the oldest and wealthiest institution on our planet deliberately prove what its critics say about it, by first tossing their leader, a proven crook, out of his office after he's threatened with arrest, and then giving him shelter to avoid prosecution? That's the kind of panic and illogic displayed by a junior document-shredder, not a credible or wise body of men.
And that gives all of us hope.
Rome's incredible admission that they can't have the Pope stand trial has strengthened our cause and legitimacy enormously, proving that no matter how big is your guilty opponent, provoking him for long enough will cause him to destroy himself by his own fear and stupidity.
Protecting Ratzinger within the walls of the Vatican may halt justice for a moment, but it violates a basic rule of warfare, which is to never give your enemy a permanent focus for their attack. Ratzinger, the evil Emperor, now a permanent fixture in the Vatican? The absurdity of offering such an ongoing focus to the civilized world's hatred of catholic criminality is also a sign that the church is adrift and improvising. But it also shows how genuinely worried is the Vtaican about the legal offensive mounted by our affiliates, lawyers for torture survivors, and the International Criminal Court.
The Vatican is pulling out all stops to keep Ratzinger out of court. Their loyal, one-man owned Italian media is assaulting the crap out of yours truly and our ITCCS these days, playing the "Deny, Distract and Discredit" strategy of any damage-controlling corporation.
Tottering Liz Windsor, aka Queen of England, is making a special and unprecedented trip to Rome on March 6 to kiss the ring, or other parts, of the new CEO of Vatican Inc. And Italian President Napolitano is meeting with President Obama today in Washington to undoubtedly line up more American backing for the Pontiff – not that Obama needs much encouraging, having stood loyally behind Ratzinger's claim of "diplomatic immunity".
But all to no avail, ultimately. When the Bloody Emperor stands naked, only our illusions keeps him protected and immune from the final accounting that is coming.
The tornado that followed my first exorcism outside the Vatican in 2009, and the lightning that struck it on the day of Benedict's resignation, were not accidental. Joe Ratzinger should know from the history of his own former SS buddies that criminal institutions can run, but they can't hide – even behind all the wealth and pomp in the world.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-pope-resignation-immunity-idUSBRE91E0ZI20130215
Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY | Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:59pm EST
(Reuters) - Pope Benedict's decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.
"His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless. He wouldn't have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else," said one Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"It is absolutely necessary" that he stays in the Vatican, said the source, adding that Benedict should have a "dignified existence" in his remaining years.
Vatican sources said officials had three main considerations in deciding that Benedict should live in a convent in the Vatican after he resigns on February 28.
Vatican police, who already know the pope and his habits, will be able to guarantee his privacy and security and not have to entrust it to a foreign police force, which would be necessary if he moved to another country.
"I see a big problem if he would go anywhere else. I'm thinking in terms of his personal security, his safety. We don't have a secret service that can devote huge resources (like they do) to ex-presidents," the official said.
Another consideration was that if the pope did move permanently to another country, living in seclusion in a monastery in his native Germany, for example, the location might become a place of pilgrimage.
POTENTIAL EXPOSURE
This could be complicated for the Church, particularly in the unlikely event that the next pope makes decisions that may displease conservatives, who could then go to Benedict's place of residence to pay tribute to him.
"That would be very problematic," another Vatican official said.
The final key consideration is the pope's potential exposure to legal claims over the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandals.
In 2010, for example, Benedict was named as a defendant in a law suit alleging that he failed to take action as a cardinal in 1995 when he was allegedly told about a priest who had abused boys at a U.S. school for the deaf decades earlier. The lawyers withdrew the case last year and the Vatican said it was a major victory that proved the pope could not be held liable for the actions of abusive priests.
Benedict is currently not named specifically in any other case. The Vatican does not expect any more but is not ruling out the possibility.
"(If he lived anywhere else) then we might have those crazies who are filing lawsuits, or some magistrate might arrest him like other (former) heads of state have been for alleged acts while he was head of state," one source said.
Another official said: "While this was not the main consideration, it certainly is a corollary, a natural result."
After he resigns, Benedict will no longer be the sovereign monarch of the State of Vatican City, which is surrounded by Rome, but will retain Vatican citizenship and residency.
LATERAN PACTS
That would continue to provide him immunity under the provisions of the Lateran Pacts while he is in the Vatican and even if he makes jaunts into Italy as a Vatican citizen.
The 1929 Lateran Pacts between Italy and the Holy See, which established Vatican City as a sovereign state, said Vatican City would be "invariably and in every event considered as neutral and inviolable territory".
There have been repeated calls for Benedict's arrest over sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
When Benedict went to Britain in 2010, British author and atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins asked authorities to arrest the pope to face questions over the Church's child abuse scandal.
Dawkins and the late British-American journalist Christopher Hitchens commissioned lawyers to explore ways of taking legal action against the pope. Their efforts came to nothing because the pope was a head of state and so enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
In 2011, victims of sexual abuse by the clergy asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the pope and three Vatican officials over sexual abuse.
The New York-based rights group Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and another group, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), filed a complaint with the ICC alleging that Vatican officials committed crimes against humanity because they tolerated and enabled sex crimes.
The ICC has not taken up the case but has never said why. It generally does not comment on why it does not take up cases.
NOT LIKE A CEO
The Vatican has consistently said that a pope cannot be held accountable for cases of abuse committed by others because priests are employees of individual dioceses around the world and not direct employees of the Vatican. It says the head of the church cannot be compared to the CEO of a company.
Victims groups have said Benedict, particularly in his previous job at the head of the Vatican's doctrinal department, turned a blind eye to the overall policies of local Churches, which moved abusers from parish to parish instead of defrocking them and handing them over to authorities.
The Vatican has denied this. The pope has apologized for abuse in the Church, has met with abuse victims on many of his trips, and ordered a major investigation into abuse in Ireland.
But groups representing some of the victims say the Pope will leave office with a stain on his legacy because he was in positions of power in the Vatican for more than three decades, first as a cardinal and then as pope, and should have done more.
The scandals began years before the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005 but the issue has overshadowed his papacy from the beginning, as more and more cases came to light in dioceses across the world.
As recently as last month, the former archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, was stripped by his successor of all public and administrative duties after a thousands of pages of files detailing abuse in the 1980s were made public.
Mahony, who was archbishop of Los Angeles from 1985 until 2011, has apologized for "mistakes" he made as archbishop, saying he had not been equipped to deal with the problem of sexual misconduct involving children. The pope was not named in that case.
In 2007, the Los Angeles archdiocese, which serves 4 million Catholics, reached a $660 million civil settlement with more than 500 victims of child molestation, the biggest agreement of its kind in the United States.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the pope "gave the fight against sexual abuse a new impulse, ensuring that new rules were put in place to prevent future abuse and to listen to victims. That was a great merit of his papacy and for that we will be grateful".
(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Additional reporting by Robin Pomeroy; Edited by Simon Robinson and Giles Elgood)

Message from Montague Keen - February 17, 2013


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Message from Montague Keen - February 17, 2013
Posted By: Mr.Ed [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 17-Feb-2013 21:04:55


Message from Montague Keen - February 17, 2013
"TO LEARN WHO RULES OVER YOU, SIMPLY FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICISE"
VOLTAIRE
My dear, I told you many years ago, that the Vatican had to fall. Now, you are seeing it happen. This is the beginning of what you have all been waiting for. It is at the top of the pyramid and it controls all that is corrupt in your world. The dam is bursting and the fall-out will be enormous. Though child abuse is a big part of it, it is the MONEY that will destroy it. The majority of you never suspected that the Vatican controlled the money and the wars. When you take into account the number of people who have lost their lives because of the actions of the Vatican, you will be shocked to the core. Its actions throughout history, not to mention its complicity in the falsification of history, will take years to unravel. The wealth that it has acquired over the centuries should be taken back and redistributed to the poor of the world. It would be hard to find a more corrupt institution. It will be exposed for what it actually is. Sadly, many of you are so brainwashed and scared of punishment that you still cling to what you believe the Vatican to be.
The Vatican has got to where it is today through instilling such terrible FEAR in people, about places of punishment that do not exist. Its corrupt practices, regarding money, have destroyed lives. Now is the time for mankind to sit in judgement on the Vatican. As you know, although it is just the first institution to fall, the whole house of cards that has controlled humanity and kept it in poverty, will fall. Those who demanded your respect and loyalty will soon be on the other side of the fence. They will then experience what you have endured for centuries. It will not be pleasant to witness, but it is what must happen for your planet to return to its rightful place in the universe.
So many of you are reluctant to leave the 3D way of living. You are still locked into the EGO and the making of money by hook or by crook. Those driven by greed, will fall by greed: because of this, such individuals are open to corruption. They so easily fall into the trap. Do they not understand that money will cease to exist? So, to sell one's soul for money is a very foolish exercise indeed.
You, my dear, were horrified when you saw this very scenario played out, this week, within your own team. One you had trusted, allowed himself to fall into this trap. He will not achieve anything by doing this, in fact, the opposite is likely to happen. See this as just a setback. Nothing on Earth will stop our mission. He may foolishly believe that he can do so, but he has not looked at what he is up against. We do not want ego and arrogance in our team. No one is greater than the whole; and even he is intelligent enough to work that out. The Dark Side will use everyone they can, to cause problems for those who are trying to bring light into a world that is so badly in need of it. Act always with a clear conscience and do so honorably. Uphold the truth in all your dealings with others. Raise your vibration to the highest level possible during this transition. Love and support all those around you, and together, you will create a world that is at peace with itself.
Welcome each change: though sometimes uncomfortable, know that it is all part of the great plan to take your planet from these corrupt institutions. The battle has begun, my friends. You know that you are on the winning side. Look to the future, when all has changed for the better. Then you can sit back and enjoy the rewards of your efforts. Truth, honesty and respect, will be the norm. Do not cling to the past as its rule is over. Take courage and move forward with confidence, with love as your guiding light. The old order is on the way out, never to rule again. Rejoice, peace beckons!
It is with admiration that we look at what is happening in Ireland. The people are taking back their power. They are demanding their rights. They are an example of what should be done and what can be done. They do it with dignity and grace. The Aryan Race is making a stand. They will succeed. They meet in each others' houses and they quietly plan their moves: therein lies their success. They know their rights and they are demanding them with dignity and confidence. This is as it should be.
Leave fear in the 3D world. It will not work anymore. You are wiser now, so you will not fall into that trap again. Stop supporting those who have brought humanity to its knees. It is time to stand tall. Know who you are and refuse to support the corrupt regimes anymore. They cannot lock everyone up. If you stand together, it is a win-win situation. The spirit world watches every step that is taken to move your world forward into the light. There are so many good people and they are coming together to discuss and support the way forward. The good ones among you, far outweigh the corrupt ones, so that when they find their voice, they will be heard. The meek shall inherit the Earth.
Take time to connect with your spiritual side. Do it quietly in your own homes. There is no need to leave your home to do this. It just needs quietness and a desire to connect. It may take a little patience but it will make a huge difference to your lives when you reconnect with spirit. This was discouraged by religions and so you have forgotten that you are actually a spirit in a human body. You are powerful spirit beings who have been subjected to DNA interference and you have been bombarded by negative energy. Even now, at the eleventh hour, the dark ones have plans to increase this negative energy. Be strong and resist what is being inflicted on you. Find your voice!
My dear, you are having a difficult day. It is always hard to deal with betrayal, especially from one who could have been a power for good in your world. However, it was his choice: he chose greed. It is people like him who keep your world in darkness. He was given an opportunity to make a difference but he failed miserably. Move on, my dear. Our work goes on. We will succeed!
Always, your adoring Monty.
Website: The Montague Keen Foundation
http://www.montaguekeen.com/

BIG NEWS: Inbound Meteors, New Pope and 'THRIVE'

BIG NEWS: Inbound Meteors, New Pope and 'THRIVE' 

by Christos Lightweaver
If I was a stand-up comic, I'd have a field day with the BIG NEWS a few days ago about a big asteroid fly-by.  Over and over we were told by TV and radio news that this asteroid would be like a nuclear bomb if it hit the Earth, wiping out an area as big as New York City, but always emphasizing, "IT WILL NOT HIT THE EARTH!" 

And then WHOOPS, video feeds from Russia showed a giant meteorite fireball shooting across the sky and exploding in the atmosphere, shattering windows in three nearby cities in the Urals region.  

NASA estimates the Chelyabinsk meteor was about the size of a bus, weighed 7,000 tons, was the largest meteor to hit Earth in 100 years, and detonated with the power of 20 atomic bombs. Thousands were injured from windows exploding inwards. See 2 1/2 min. video HERE.

The lesson here is that no media spin of "ALL IS WELL" can change the TRUTH we can all see for ourselves through the eyes of 'netizen journalists' worldwide. Thanks to utilization of video-recording smart phones, live reporting of global events are providing some fantastic real-time disclosure of our instant-everywhere and interactive global village in metamorphosis. 

With collective vision, global issues are now brought to our collective consciousness for adjudication.

A new 'common sense' is emerging for
the 'Family of Man' in our global village,
and an all-connected unity-in-diversity is
  defining the United Sovereigns of Earth.
That brings us to the other BIG NEWS of the week.  Pope Benedict resigned to avoid arrest and seizure of Vatican wealth; a 'Diplomatic Note' was issued to the Vatican just prior to his resignation, as you can read HERE.  Obviously, there's a sharply divided power struggle in the Vatican analogous to the divisive gridlock on Capital Hill. In both cases, there is a severe public 'credibility crisis' with the same 'major players' involved.

Apparently the Vatican Bank (Rome) has been going through a 'money laundering' crisis with slush fund accounts of major US politicians identified and seized at Vatican Bank. To quote the Bob Chapman newsletter:
"Beneficiaries of the covert Vatican accounts include Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and each of the Obama children, Michelle Obama's mother, all the Bushes and the Clintons, including Chelsea Clinton, Joe Biden, Timothy Geithner, Janet Napolitano, several US Senators, including Mitch McConnell, several US Congressmen including John Boehner, several US Military Chiefs of Staff, the US Provost Marshal, the US Judge Advocate General, the US Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts, several US Judges, the Pope, and several cardinals.   Big money was found in each of the accounts. The longer the beneficiaries have been in office, the greater the account balances were found to be. They range from a few million USD to more than a billion USD in the case of John Roberts. The total number of slush fund accounts so far identified at the Vatican Bank is said to be between 600 and 700. This number is likely to grow as international elite corruption investigations spread worldwide.  The disclosures have split the Roman Catholic Legatus organization down the middle. Elizabeth Windsor (Queen Elizabeth II of England) is in the know and is intimately involved in the swirling and fissiparous covert power plays."
 
The Internet has also been circulating authentic pictures of the outgoing Pope as a teenager in Hitler's Youth Core.  Ongoing media exposure of priest pedophilia hasn't helped his cause either. 

Personally, I don't know if a new Pope will resolve their corrupt 'bankster issues' as we see in the U.S., but from a prophetic spiritual perspective, I find it very interesting that the ancient prophesies of Saint Malichi, Nostradamus and the leaked 'secret' Fatima prophecy correspond to this next Pope being the last pope with cryptic warnings of doomsday.  

Additionally, there's a prophecy from the ancient Book of Zohar that predicts a meteor shower hailing down on Rome in the Jewish year 5773, which corresponds to the 2012-2013 period.  Hmmmm. 

The lesson here actually has much to do with another Vatican corruption issue -- cover-up of Planet X inbound -- which the Vatican has been tracking with their own deep-space telescope; see the short video interview with Father Malachi Martin HERE... or see the in-depth video intro's to Planet X HERE.  No one in the 'embedded media' will report that Earth is entering the 'debris field' around Nibiru as it approaches with its 3,660 year fly-by of Earth.  But expect more giant fireballs in the sky as appeared over California just yesterday. 

As for the 'THRIVE movement', there's a lot of prescient truth in Foster Gamble's recent article and videos on the Sandy Hook incident HERE.  People worldwide are following the Thrive Movement, awakening to the 'power shift' FROM highly centralized, top-down, one-way corporate media PROGRAMMING -- to maintain the status quo -- and TO a highly decentralized, bottom-up "net roots" (grass-roots), interactive NETWORKING that involves and evolves our individual and collective consciousness.

This 'evolution revolution' is naturally culturing social consciousness in our ubiquitous social networks. It is overcoming health care tyranny with a compelling vision of, by and for 'Universal Self Care'.  And by the grace of the 'Great Spirit', it will provide a global turn-around with the same 'ultimatum' spoken by wise old Ben Franklin before ratification of the U.S. Constitution: "Either we all hang together, or most assuredly, we will all hang separately.".

Sovereignty is now a global issue. If global civilization is going to THRIVE, it's time to get a grip on the TRUTH that truly liberates our conscientious common sense.  And more important than the PROBLEM -- once we clearly comprehend the power elite power struggles dividing us -- is a clear vision of THE SOLUTION as A PROCESS that will unite "US" (United Sovereigns of Earth).

"It is no coincidence that the century of total warcoincided with the century of central banking."
~ Ron Paul
Or as Foster Gamble says, "How come if you or I make up money, it’s called counter-fitting, but if the banks do it it’s called increasing the money supply?  In 1910, representatives from the Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan and other private bankers gathered in partnership with the politicians to draft the legislation that created the Federal Reserve."

Those who look to the status quo for stability may find themselves driving into the future with eyes glued to the rear-view mirror, as if the road behind will be a linear continuum into the future.  But there's a big 'curve' in the road ahead. Yes, hindsight is important, knowing that Planet X has orbited near Earth with mild to severe Earth changes before.  But we also need foresight... to connect the dots and get the picture of what is REALLY coming upon Earth, for better or for worse.

Is it true that something BIG has to happen to change corrupt self-serving public institutions that have been 'privatized' by big money interests?  Are you aware that a global revolution in higher consciousness is our best hope for riding out the portents of increasing Earth changes? Would you agree that the best way to predict the future is with some congruent foresight?
 
Pray that THE SHIFT and our THRIVAL comes with public awakening to spiritual solutions for co-creating a better world.

Big LOVE is needed to mitigate the madness with mainstream metamorphosis.

~ Christos

PS:  Inspirational videos this week: 'The Woman Who Stopped the War' (Part Two is HERE), and ' Raising Consciousness' by Patricia Cota-Robles.  Inspirational article this week at: 'Heart Coherence and the Science of Source'.

PSS: Thanks to all for your support of 'Super-Immunity'

Captured - humor


Katie Couric and Brian Williams and a tough old U.S. Marine Sergeant were captured by terrorists in Iraq . The leader of the terrorists told them he would grant each of them one last request before they were beheaded and dragged naked through the streets.


Katie Couric said, "Well, I'm a Southerner, so I'd like one last plate of Draper Valley fried chicken." The leader nodded to an underling who left and returned with chicken. Couric ate it all and said, "Now I can die content."


Brian Williams said, "I want to take out my tape recorder and describe the scene here and what's about to happen. Maybe, someday, someone will hear it and know that I was on the job till the end." The leader directed an aide to hand over the tape recorder and Williams dictated his comments. He then said, "Now I can die happy."


The leader turned and asked, "And now, Mr. U.S. Marine, what is your final wish?"


"Kick me in the ass," said the Marine.  "I'm NOT kidding. I want you to kick me in the ass," insisted the Marine.


So the leader shoved him into the yard and kicked him in the ass. The Marine went sprawling, but rolled to his knees, pulled a 9 mm pistol from inside his cammies and shot the leader dead. In the resulting confusion, he emptied his sidearm on six terrorists, then with his knife he slashed the throat of one, and with an AK-47, which he took, sprayed the rest of the terrorists, killing another 11. In a flash, all of them were either dead or fleeing for their lives.


As the Marine was untying Couric and Williams, they asked him, "Why didn't you just shoot them all in the first place? Why did you ask him to kick you in the ass?"


"What?" replied the Marine, "and have you two assholes report that I was the aggressor.....?"


Semper Fi